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HTML

<select id="mySelect">
    <option title="hover 1">Foo</option>
    <option title="hover 2">Bar</option>
    <option title="hover 3">Baz</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('<option>',
{
    value: 'countryUSA',
    title: 'Full description of USA',
    text: 'United States of America'
}).appendTo("#mySelect");